Wordle 1,544 5/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Minute Cryptic - 10 September, 2025 (A hard one, that took some thought because the definition isn't immediately obvious. Late last night I did the chapter of their, Minute Cryptic's, book about substitutions, which was hard going in places because I didn't pay adequate attention to the introduction for that chapter but reread it. I'm really enjoying the book. The thought given to the progression of knowledge and skills is very well thought out. Rather like learning to swim where a person feels more able to deal with progressively deeper water despite starting with an aid. I prefer that style of teaching because there is a logical progression, although maybe it gives a false impression of been too easy at the start and that would bore some people but I think that's fine as long as it's mixed up because I found the anagram section, which is fairly early on, harder than the substitution section, so 'difficult' is itself subjective. The next stage after that kind of progressive learning and doing, is reference books. I hope Minute Cryptic do a 'Introduction to Algorithms' but for cryptic crosswords because many of the ones I've seen have had cryptics as a secondary concern. I'm slowly getting faster at anagrams, which is an example of where computers have made someone dumber because I've usually either written a program to solve them for me or used someone else's solver. I'm using this as an excuse to learn properly.)
"Playing piano after American season of pipe organs?" (9)
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I scored: 3 under par
https://www.minutecryptic.com/
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MhMiGYGckpg